Wikipedia:WikiProject Children's literature/categories

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The categories aren't as much of a mess as they could be, but there's still no consensus on what goes in what category. Proposed tree:

[edit] Category Chart

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| Children's and Young Adult |
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                |
                |
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    |                 |                   |                  |           |                |
    |                 |                   |                  |           |                | 
    |                 |                   |                  |           |                |
 --------------   --------------    --------------    --------------   --------------     |
 | Children's |   | Children's |    | Children's |    | Children's |   | Children's |     |
 | and YA     |   | and YA     |    | and YA     |    | and YA     |   | and YA     |     |
 | Magazines  |   | Book Awards|    | writers    |    | illustators|   | by genre   |     |
 --------------   --------------    --------------    --------------   --------------     |
    |                 |                 |                |                     |          |
    |                 |                 |                |                     | ------------
 articles          articles and       articles and       articles and          | |Children's|
 (Cricket,         subcats if         "by nationality"   "by nationality"      | | and YA   |
 etc.)             necessary          categories         categories            | |books     |
                                                                               | ------------
        ------------------------------------------------------------------------         |
        |                        |                     |          |            |         |
        |                        |                     |          |            |         |
        |                        |                     |          article:     |         |
  -----------------        ---------------      ----------------   "Genres"    etc.      |
  | Picture Books |        | Young Adult |      | Easy Readers |                         |
  -----------------        ---------------      ----------------                         |
       |                          |                  |                                   |
       |                          |                  |                                   |
   articles:                  articles:            articles:                             |
    Caldecott Medal            Printz Medal         Limited Vocabulary Books             |
    Picture books              Problem novel                                             |
                                                                                         |
         ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
         |                     |                      |                       |
         |                     |                      |                       |
         |                     |                      |                       |
     articles              --------------         Categories for            ---------------
       all the books       | Children's |         books with their          | Fictional   |
       (subdivisions?      | and YA     |         own cats (eg              | elements of |
       original language   | Series     |     Category:Alice in Wonderland) | C&YA books  |
       or country of       --------------                                   ---------------
       1st pub?)              |                                               |
                              |                                               |
                           articles and categories:                    Also child of
                             the series                               Category:Fictional
                                                                      contains child cats,
                                                                      also children of the 
                                                                      relevant Fictional
                                                                      subcats.

Chart: Deborah-jl Talk 05:52, 18 February 2006 (UTC)